Paper 2 style question on topic 1.2 Ultrastructure of cells
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Summary list for topic 1.2 Ultrastructure of cells
Know and be able to draw the simple structure of Prokaryote cells
Know and draw the compartmentalised structure of Eukaryotic cells.
Understand that the resolving power of electron microscopes is between 10µm and 1nm
whereas light microscopes resolve details between 1mm and 1µm.
Skills and applications
Ability to identify organelles from microscope images of cells.
Ability to explain how the composition of organelles will be different in cells with different functions,
(e.g. goblet cells which make mucus and palisade mesophyll cells which do photosynthesis).
Explain how the structure of prokaryotes allows them to divide by binary fission.